Business Insider is reporting that approximately 91,000 iPads were sold in the first 6 hours of the presale. With the presale lasting 8 hours, they must have hit 100,000 pre-orders today. These numbers are just estimates, but still impressive.

Business Insider’s Source, Philip Elmer DeWitt, had been following the sales throughout the day. He estimated that Apple had sold 20,000 iPads in the first 2 hours, 74,000 in the first 4.5 hours, and finally 90,000 in the first 6 hours. If these numbers are any where close to accurate, then Apple must have surpassed 100,000 units by the end of the day.

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Google has released an iPad friendly version of their popular RSS aggregator service called Google Reader Play. 

This service uses Reader’s popular ‘Recommended Items‘ feature to offer an easy way for users to browse through interesting blog and news articles. 

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As you might already know, iPad Wi-Fi+3G customers will have the option to opt for either $14.99 per month for 250 MB or $29.99 for unlimited contract free data plans.

Though iPad Wi-Fi+3G models will be available only towards the end of April, Apple has released details on how customers can manage their 3G data usage on the tablet.

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As you might know, Apple’s latest creation, the iPad, is now available for pre-orders in the US.

Folks at 9to5Mac have observed that Apple has made a last minute change in iPad’s hardware. They have replaced the mute switch just above the volume control button on the side of the device with a “screen rotation lock”.

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Barnes & Noble has confirmed that the company shall be launching an eReader application for iPad users in the next few weeks.

The new application is expected to be on the lines of the B&N’s iPhone app that allows users to access millions of ebooks and magazines from the company’s eBookstore. 

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Fallen Earth is a respectable postapocalyptic MMO — I’ve never played it (one MMO is enough for me, and the gigantic World of Warcraft is still claiming my time), but it’s grown pretty popular since release in September of last year. And now the game is set to pick up another chunk of audience, as the owner Icarus Studios has announced that they’re releasing a Mac client for the game.

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While we weren’t able to stay the whole time (the life of a TUAW blogger at a covention is varied and hectic), the iPhone Game Developers’ Luncheon at GDC 2010 was a pretty enlightening experience. After a little varied networking among guests, hosts PlayHaven, Cooley Godward Kronish (a law firm that specializes in startup companies), and MplayIt started up the panel discussion. The iPhone developers in attendance were Igor Pusenjak of Lima Sky (the creators of the very popular Doodle Jump) and Bryan Mitchell, a solo developer who created a game called Geared that’s risen to the top of the App Store charts.

The most interesting thing we learned at the luncheon (in among a lot of legal talk about forming corporations and copyright law) was where these two developers came from. Mitchell was a filmmaker who had to work construction “after film work dried up in Las Vegas,” and decided to jump in on the app business to make extra money. His game only made a few bucks a day at first, but after spending a little on advertising, Apple featured his game in “What’s Hot.” After that, he was off to the races.

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Apple Store in the US has just been updated to include the new iPad, both the Wi-Fi only version, and Wi-Fi + 3G version for pre-order starting from today. The Wi-Fi only model comes in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions and are available for $499, $599 and $699 respectively. It will ship on 3rd April for free. The Wi-Fi + 3G version of iPad also comes in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions and can be bought for $629, $729 and $829 respectively. The Wi-Fi + 3G version however wont ship before late April 2010.

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Steph Thirion’s first iPhone game was Eliss, a touchscreen-based arcade game that had you combining and maneuvering planets around one another, and trying to size-match them up with black holes to earn points. As he told us (stay tuned for an exclusive interview with the indie developer), it was pretty hard — even more so than he actually intended it to be.

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Lugo, Spain – Small Wonders S.L. has just added more unlockable content to Battle of Puppets 1.2.2, their fascinatingly odd and original, linear strategy game for the iPhone and iPod touch. Adding to the recently included OpenFeint leaderboard and achievement integration, AI improvements and harder difficulty levels, Small Wonders has been working to include all of the most requested features to Battle of Puppets. Also, in celebration of the update Battle of Puppets is now only $0.99 permanently!

Touting a vibrant artistic style, Battle of Puppets combines beautiful graphics, the hallowed art of puppetry, and ruthless combat! Its players are cast as silent puppeteers, who must strategically control their hordes of marionette minions as they battle across a series of 22 American theatres on their quest for Broadway acclaim. All 22 theatres have custom operatic backdrops of famous landmarks, and now each one has a global leaderboard through OpenFeint.

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Royal Palm Beach, FL – Announcing that Techno Gurus, the developers of iBrr Bluetooth Receiver and Remote 1.0, has launched a new application in a new niche. This is a brand new app that uses peer-to-peer networking via WiFi or Bluetooth technology to transform an iDevice into a remote control. iBrr also provides a secure way to ensure that others have no access to the device.

iBrr Bluetooth Receiver and Remote is the original peer-to-peer music control app, and remains the most feature-rich device to device remote available in the app store. iBrr is easily the best-designed and easiest-to-use app for turning iPhones, iPads or iPod touches into a receiver and remote set. One device is used to control the music playing on the other, which is usually connected to a stereo or speaker system via the headphone jack or an Apple-brand docking station.

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For the last panel of GDC 2010 day two, David Whatley of Critical Thought took the stage to talk about the App Store success he found with his games geoDefense and geoDefense Swarm, and almost dared other iPhone developers to follow his “guaranteed plan” to go from “zero to Time Magazine.”

He’s got quite a background in the trenches of coding and game development, having designed and run online mulitplayer games for over a decade with his “day job” at a company called Simutronics, but he decided to take to the iPhone in his spare time both to learn the platform and see what he could do with it.

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TUAW is reporting that Apple will begin the pre-order of the iPad tomorrow, at 5:30am PST. They contacted a rep at Apple, who confirmed, the March 12th pre-order date and time. Get your refresh buttons ready!

The hype is really on now. We have an exact time that we can order the next big thing from Apple.

Expect Apple’s servers to be a little bogged down tomorrow, as US residents get to pre-order their iPad at 5:30am PST/8:30am EST.

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